Description
KANEKA Corporation was founded in Japan in 1949, and has been engaged in the manufacturing and sales of numerous highly specialized products within various fields of businesses including foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, functional plastics, expandable plastics, chemicals, electric raw materials, and synthetic fibers.
The company started a large-scale production of margarine and shortening in 1953 under KANEKA, and quickly boosted its production output to include other high quality products in the bakery and confectionery market. KANEKA Group has established a total of 9 factories in Japan and 3 more factories overseas for Food manufacturing. With well over 60 years of food science and technology experience, KANEKA matured as one of the key suppliers for bread-related ingredients in Japan with sales exceeding 50 billion Yen, equals to 72 trillion Rupiahs.
In Indonesia, KANEKA partnered with Mitsubishi Corporation as its 50% shareholder in establishing KANEKA Foods Indonesia. The company’s factory in Karawang was completed in 2013, and since then KANEKA Foods Indonesia has catered a large number of retail brands, pastry chain stores, hotels, restaurants, and local bakeries while continuously supporting industry advancements through the implementation of food science.
